Optical networking and communications for this market study is as follows, a type of communications network wherein data transmission occurs via light as optical or Infra-Red signals and optical components form the building blocks of the network. The market has been defined as the summation of hardware and services revenues.

The report covers both the demand and supply sides of the market. The supply side market segmentation includes several hardware, services, and technologies. On the other hand, demand side segmentation includes various verticals, and regions. The following diagram gives an overview of the micro-markets covered for the report.

Optical Networking and Communications market is majorly driven by the demand for 100G and the ever increasing deployments of datacenters. Another important factor that contributes to this surge in optical networks is the adoption of cloud-based services.

The global Optical networking and communications market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 10.5 % to reach $25.97 Billion by 2020. Optical networking and communications aims at optimizing communications network wherein data transmission occurs via light as optical or Infra-Red (IR) signals and optical components form the building blocks of the network.

It has its applications in various industries such as aerospace and defense, government, manufactures, submarine, mining, transportation, oil and gas, healthcare, telecom, energy and utilities. The report provides a description of the application of optical networking and communications market. The market within this study has been classified on the basis of optical networking and communications market technologies like Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM), Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) / Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) and Fiber Channel.Optical networking and communications hardware types are optical fiber, optical amplifiers, optical switches, optical splitters, fiber optic circulators, optical transceivers and others. Applications of optical networking and communications are aerospace and defense, government, manufactures, submarine, mining, transportation, oil and gas, healthcare, telecom, energy and utilities and so on. This report covers geographical regions which include Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific and, the Rest of the World (ROW).